dcauldwell - no, that's not the point of his question... i would also blame the GI settings (either the LC subdivs or the irradiance map sample settings), could you post a screenshot of those two?

How does it handle 45 degree angles...? Today I'm using Ridgid Sketch and although it's a very helpful tool, it fails completely when it comes to angles...

hi Raymond, @rvdkruk75 said: I can't find a shadow catching material for v-ray for SU. Do you have a link or something? in fact i searched about this problem and found video demonstrate this link for Video : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMpME8wlA-c Important note : this method works only when i use Hdri in environment slots as he did, but it didn't work with me when i used dome light with Hdri, and i don't know the solution to use it with dome light. maybe someone can find a solution for that.

What version of V-Ray for SketchUp are you using? Does this happen with the default materials that come with SketchUp? Does this happen in a fresh scene with just a box?

I was able to look at Make's scene, I was unable to reproduce the crash running OSX Lion, SketchUp 2013, and our latest nightly build. gspalding - sorry you're having trouble on the CG forums, but you don't have to worry about jumping through those hoops to report a bug. Just send us an email: vfswip@chaosgroup.com will submit to our bug tracker, which we use exclusively for tracking down and fixing bugs in V-Ray for SketchUp. Forums and email aren't used to track/fix bugs at all, so if you only wanted to report a bug, there's no reason to even post about it on any forums at all, because Joe (the other developer) and I don't use those forms of communication for that purpose. If you have steps to reproduce the issue, or an example scene file that can be used to reproduce the issue on our machines, please send in a bug report so we can fix this. If the scene is too large, just start deleting things until it's about 10mb in size, and then send it along. The less complex a scene is, that still demonstrates the issue, the better.

there are no errors in that error log, perhaps if you can post a scene, or explicit steps on how to reproduce the error, someone can better assist you.

@valerostudio said: If you are using 1.6 beta - use the dome light to use an HDRI to light your scene. If you just want the HDRI as your background, go to options and under Environment. place the HDRI in the BG slot. In your Output under options, make sure to click Get view aspect so Vray will match SU. that i know.. but the Background is not placed according to the model.. its like my model will be on some wall, on some window or on some top, or hanging in air.

I think so - Look under Plugins- Vray - Pack Scene FYI - Currently, I do not think it copies vrmesh files. CORRECTION - this has been fixed, meshes pack now too.

suggest uniting the topics: http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=322&t=53444

@andybot said: How's "yes"? A lot like this: http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m30eiuIS5a1r95uueo1_500.gif. Click it. You know you want to.

hi, sorry the non reply was on a deadline, in the end I used a different monitor that had the correct ratio i wanted, not the correct answer but it worked

i'm having the opposite issue, if i apply the material to a plane it renders fine, if i do it to a component or a group then it doesn't shows up in my render...

We have just made Thea Studio 1.2 and Thea for SketchUp publicly available as a demo version. All of you have now a chance to try the new Field Mapping engine and also Presto GPU running on Nvidia cards.

In response to that old thread: No, we do not handle the way SketchUp on Mac handles multiple SU instances being open at the same time... it will cause scene corruption, crashes, and other horrible things to happen... You get 1 SketchUp instance only, Thomthom's utility probably won't do any good in this instance at all. Just don't do it. One SU window only on OSX if V-Ray is loaded. In response to this thread: I have no idea what that white dialog is, and I am unable to reproduce it so far on my own machine.

Thanks for the info - thats a lot of help. I do so many hacky little tricks with SU that I've reached a point where I just want solid stuff that works, rather than spending time trying to figure out whats going wrong and where (entirely my fault most of the time) Ash

@unknownuser said: Nice tree btw! It was made with tree maker plugin for SU... @unknownuser said: I have to get used to using MLT method. It seems a lot slower though. Maybe you can try with Path tracing progressive? A bit quicker for that kind of scene. @unknownuser said: Just out of curiosity why does this happen? (Bias=halo unbiased=no halo) Well, I've never used biased presets so...I don't know. I think you need to tweak some settings as I said.

there's no benefit that I'm aware of. I believe it's just a bug.

1.2 user manual is not linked on their website yet... being updated. here's the straight link. http://help.revizto.com/1_2_Editor/